Top 125 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Redknapp
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English coach Harry Redknapp.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I've still got a scrapbook at home of the Munich air crash. I was an Arsenal supporter, and I went with my dad every week. I would have been 11 in 1958 and remember standing at Highbury for the Busby Babes. I remember that was the last game before they jetted off to Europe, and a lot of them never came back.
I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.
I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.
Luka Modric could get into almost any team.
Lots of people do that silly tweeting.
We are givers, not takers.
I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.
I've not made my name as a wheeler and dealer. Don't say that.
At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do deals. I was always taking a gamble.
Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it's not enjoyable.
I love what I do; I want to continue doing it, I work hard at my job.
I have never written a letter in my life.
When I was a kid, there used to be a family section in every club where it would be all kids. That stopped.
I am not a tax fiddler. I am not any kind of tax fiddler, never have been in my life.
For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.
I told Birmingham I don't want nothing, I'm not interested in the money.
I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.
There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.
If there is anybody who feels they are not in the right frame of mind to play, then obviously, I would not play them.
To try and nick a few quid off the income tax... Why? I am not into that. I don't need that.
There's only so much you can say to any group of players before they stop listening.
Luka Modric is an outstanding footballer, a great player.
I am completely and utterly disorganised.
Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.
I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.
Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.
I enjoy going to Old Trafford. I love the tradition.
I don't think I can eat emu.
Am I scared of anything? Yeah, everything.
I have been around football all my life, and it doesn't happen. It never enters my mind. I don't think, 'Oh, what's going to happen to me at the end of the season?' Whatever happens to me, happens.
I do get text messages from people with sick jokes on when something terrible has happened. I don't read them; they make me ill. But it does happen, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who gets them.
I can't work a computer.
I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.
For me, sitting there, watching them pass the ball, watching them train - you want to be around good players.
I'm a realist.
I don't go to Cheltenham. Too busy. It does my head in.
I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.
I haven't got an old man's brain. I have got a sharp mind and enjoy doing what I do.
I would love to work with a young and upcoming coach somewhere and give him some experience. Something like Gerry Francis overseeing Tony Pulis.
I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.
You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.
The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.
I've got no hobbies - a game of golf every now and again, but that's it.
I've got no business acumen whatsoever.
I write like a two-year-old, and I can't spell.
I wouldn't fart in front of my wife, and she wouldn't do it in front of me.
Gareth Bale could play anywhere.
When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I'd had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.
I've enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I've been lucky, but I won't jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn't like very much.
I love animals, all animals - apart from cats. I'm a little bit scared of cats.
When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team - if you were at West Ham, you didn't leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn't think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.
I've heard of Francis Drake and Ted Drake. But I don't know who Drake is.
Two wide men stuck out wide leave you very open in midfield, but it's a strength as well. Going forward, it makes you pretty dangerous to anyone.
If I could help someone somewhere, help a young manager, I'd love that. I did it at Derby with Darren Wassall and had a great time.
You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.
The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly, all the talk was about his revolutionary new training methods.
I have brought up a fantastic family.
Nobody at the FA has ever explained why I was overlooked and not even asked for an interview.
I don't know what an email is.
All my mates are West Ham supporters; I went there at 15.
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